Pharmaceutical companies are undergoing a significant digital transformation driven by changing customer demands, compliance issues, budget constraints and pressure to deliver life-changing medicines, faster. To address these factors, many pharma companies are adopting IoT, including the Internet of Medical Technology (IoMT)—connecting their applications, data and other assets to a health care ecosystem using network technologies.

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the biggest proponents of IoTM, which can streamline access to applications, confidential records and protected health information (PHI). ln addition, industrial IoT  used to provide analytics-enabled data management that pharma companies need to ensure the seamless exchange of data across their supply chains.

While effective IoT can protect critical data and applications, pharma companies need to safeguard their entire environment including intelligent devices that in some instances are capable of dispensing medicine. In addition, large volumes of research data are accessed, analyzed and moved across networks. With network resources being exposed to threats by potentially unsecured access, it can be challenging to ensure effective cybersecurity on the local-area network (LAN), wide-area network (WAN) and cloud edges—where data is generated and consumed.

As an MSSP, you can offer pharma companies Fortinet’s Security Fabric, a flexible platform for building an end-to-end, integrated security architecture to address these challenges.
This integration can span from a pharma company’s manufacturing facility to its headquarters, to its branch offices. The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers protection across the network from the data center to endpoints to multiple clouds. To maximize existing investments, an open application programming interface (API) and Fabric Connectors can be used to integrate third-party security tools.

Learn how Fortinet can help your pharmaceutical clients take advantage of IoT and connected medicine while safeguarding their mission-critical assets